Absolutely, and great points by the way. I think that the best argument for the Quartz/Aqua GUI's viability in server configuration/administration is that of choice... I'm a former Mac Net Admin. Over the past year-and-a-half I've brushed up on enough CL apps and tricks to know *when* the CL is the more efficient interface for the job.
When I have the ability to rapidly churn through different configuration scenarios using Aqua, then monitor just what's going on through the tcsh shell (not to mention broaden my knowledge of *NIX in general), I've got the best of both worlds!
Then, when it's time for depolyment: Bam! Boot in to Single-User mode. A headless server that boasts equivalent-to-better stability than a equivalently stacked/priced x86 running Linux or BSD...
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Correction: the Toshiba uses USB 2.0 (which will set you back the same $30 for a PCI add-in) and costs pretty much the same as the iPod (with a leet removable mini-drive, mind you)
(Unfortunately, one of my main interests, music, is one of the slowest to switch. Looks like I'll still be booting into OS 9 until Cubase SX is ready in 6 months or more...)
If you think about it (which you probably have), The population of people who develop Graphics/Productivity/Networking apps are for the most part dedicated specifically to development, and have unrelated pastimes, hobbies, and 2nd "Jobs"...
The guys who are slaving away at Musicianship/Audio Engineering tools have a higher tendancy to consider development in the evolution of their packages a lower priority than their counterparts in the other industries - because Music is the 1st love. I think this attitude probably tends to pervade all different levels of employees at Steinberg, DigiDesign, MoTU et al. from lowly Beta testers all the way up to managerial staff and executives.
"what on earth is this for? Why would you buy this, because you're an Apple cheerleader?"
How about if you're an admin overseeing 50 networked Macs and want to net-boot them all? How about if you're running a genetic research lab and want to harness a series of *real* vector units in your in-house cluster? AltiVec boosts BLAST performance by quite a few degrees.... For that matter, whenever you need a cluster capable of crunching through parallel process strings like it's nobody's business, G4 is the only way to go.
Rah-Rah Sis Boom Bah, Apple makes the ladies go: "oh and ooh and ahh!"
Thank you for the response, I'll check out the video.
On a side note, I really hope your team is able to win significant market share in the coming months. Quark has become the moribund bane of my existence lately. I'd like nothing more than to join the InDesign push, and would greatly appreciate a contact for the New York marketing department (if there is such a branch), thanks:)
Is there any such seminar scheduled in the NYC metro region? I'm very interested in the extensibility of InDesign, yet was not able to travel to WWDC this year...
Yeah, I'm not going all the way up to Nyack from Queens..:P Ironically, I just moved here from Boston where there are now 2 AppleGaps within a 30 minute drive from each other:P
I just did a job that entailed copying-pasting roughly 6000 column data-sets from an Excel spreadsheet in to a design layout. I originally tackled the problem in InDesign, because it allows very useful "import text filters" that allowed me to pre-emptively edit out extra cell-data and the likes. It took me 6 hours all together.
But they needed it in Quark format... Let's just say, 25 hours later I'm not a very happy camper.
I recommend welding Aluminum for any welders looking for a challenge
Sure... I've known how to weld steel for some years now, and what my bud explained to me about the process of welding Ti made me pee my pants... Of course Merlin was (still is I guess, even though they've been bought by LiteSpeed) hell bent on brandishing the finest, most consistent titanium puddle-beads in the industry. That's pretty much all a Merlin (or Seven) is... Ultra-thin 3/2.5 (like all the others) with Fine Art beads:P
Just to clarify, the purpose for flooding the weld surface with innert gas is not due to the melt point, but rather to shield the weld from the impurities that are introduced by the Earth's atmosphere (i.e. oxidization).
I have a few knick-knacks my best friend welded for me when he worked at Merlin Metalworks (bicycle frame manufacturer) that were welded unshielded, and the welds are very brittle and show corrosion.
If your iPod is bootable, all you have to do is plug it in and restart while holding down Option. You'll get a graphical "boot loader" that will show you an icon for every attached bootable volume, even Linux volumes (which get a cute penguin icon). Click on the icon for your iPod with the mouse and you'll boot from it. Voila, you have root access. The internal hard drive will be accessible to you.
Yes, holding down option and costing yourself a few vulnerable seconds while the optical drive is scanned and determined empty (while displaying the "startup manager") is another option. I'd rather just hold down the chord-of-boot and ask the machine to defer boot-up to the next bootable volume on the next available bus right after power-on. (Sounds like you haven't been using Macs for all too long if you were unaware of this function - it predates the nifty "startup manager" by a number of years)
Your scheme also assumes I'm able to attain ownership/r/w priveleges to the internal volume while booted from an ancillary volume. This is not always the case, I've had issues with multiple internal hard drives before.
You're right about the Open Firmware... It's a rather recent addition to the party though... I'm a little worried about using it myself, the consequences could be disastrous. More power to you:)
Every one of the aforementioned solutions can be very easily bypassed (aside from yours):
Step 1) Configure your iPod so the HFS+ volume is identical to a MacOS X install CD. Step 2) plug in the iPod Step 3) restart the mac holding down Command-option-shift-delete (when rupert the apron-wearing attendant is over there helping a cute 19 year old find a copy of Black and White) Step 4) Reset the local root password, set startup disk to internal HD, restart Step 5) Login as root, go crazy.
The same can be accomplished with an actual install CD, but it's far more conspicuous.
I'm not 100% certain that the Mac will authorize a password reset if the boot volume isn't explicitly 'Drive C', but I wouldn't put it beyond Apple to have been lax about this function.
I'm in no way condoning this behavior (nor am I bragging about past personal acheivements), it simply crossed my mind the last time I was in the 5th Ave Manhattan CompUSA fiddling around with the new iMac, wishing I could log in as root;)
I agree with you, the best anti-piracy solution is to simply super-glue the Firewire/USB ports and optical drives shut:P Barring that, demo programs can and will be pilfered by sneaky little bastiges, although it certainly blocks access to people who wish to demo the ports for honorable reasons:)
Smart and slow doesn't win the race. Stupid and fast does.
Well... I guess somebody wasn't paying attention to his Grimm fairy tales way back when. Why am I not surprised when gaining this particular little insight in to your childhood history?
What's more perplexing is the origin of your motivation to resort to puerile tactics such as equating a Mac user to a domesticated dog. I rarely find any PowerPC users that choose such a route of argumentation. Oh well, "ingoramus et ignorabimus" my naieve freind:)
I think the update predominantly fixes the high-level API compatibilities rather than low-level performance. Limewire under OSX now functions properly in terms of real-time column resizing and redraw, etc. There very well might be more to the update than just this, I'm not sure. Read the ADC release doc. if you're truly curious:)
Just curious, where are you going find an x86 processor that runs at 5.4 Ghz (considering that a 1Ghz G4 Apollo is the equivalent of an "AMD rating" of 1800MP)...
I suppose you could try and OC a Pentium 4, but you'll find that the core wasn't designed to handle the aggregation that would occur, and thus you'd hit a performance wall most likely at around 3.8Ghz... Read the sig and bow to the wisdom, your "highness"
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Absolutely, and great points by the way. I think that the best argument for the Quartz/Aqua GUI's viability in server configuration/administration is that of choice... I'm a former Mac Net Admin. Over the past year-and-a-half I've brushed up on enough CL apps and tricks to know *when* the CL is the more efficient interface for the job.
When I have the ability to rapidly churn through different configuration scenarios using Aqua, then monitor just what's going on through the tcsh shell (not to mention broaden my knowledge of *NIX in general), I've got the best of both worlds!
Then, when it's time for depolyment: Bam! Boot in to Single-User mode. A headless server that boasts equivalent-to-better stability than a equivalently stacked/priced x86 running Linux or BSD...
Or perhaps this?
Maybe even this?
Correction: the Toshiba uses USB 2.0 (which will set you back the same $30 for a PCI add-in) and costs pretty much the same as the iPod (with a leet removable mini-drive, mind you)
The guys who are slaving away at Musicianship/Audio Engineering tools have a higher tendancy to consider development in the evolution of their packages a lower priority than their counterparts in the other industries - because Music is the 1st love. I think this attitude probably tends to pervade all different levels of employees at Steinberg, DigiDesign, MoTU et al. from lowly Beta testers all the way up to managerial staff and executives.
Here's to 10.5's MIDI toolkit!
serial FireWire
USB 2 will aspire
robs the CPU
naa.. the repeated QT stream is verbatim from the originally streamed live-edit announcement video.
oh how I wish it
had wireless eight two, one one
my TiBook is sad
well, they claim it's AGP 4x, so I suppose it's AGP speeds. Interesting...
"what on earth is this for? Why would you buy this, because you're an Apple cheerleader?"
How about if you're an admin overseeing 50 networked Macs and want to net-boot them all? How about if you're running a genetic research lab and want to harness a series of *real* vector units in your in-house cluster? AltiVec boosts BLAST performance by quite a few degrees.... For that matter, whenever you need a cluster capable of crunching through parallel process strings like it's nobody's business, G4 is the only way to go.
Rah-Rah Sis Boom Bah, Apple makes the ladies go: "oh and ooh and ahh!"
Thank you for the response, I'll check out the video.
:)
On a side note, I really hope your team is able to win significant market share in the coming months. Quark has become the moribund bane of my existence lately. I'd like nothing more than to join the InDesign push, and would greatly appreciate a contact for the New York marketing department (if there is such a branch), thanks
Is there any such seminar scheduled in the NYC metro region? I'm very interested in the extensibility of InDesign, yet was not able to travel to WWDC this year...
Yeah, I'm not going all the way up to Nyack from Queens.. :P Ironically, I just moved here from Boston where there are now 2 AppleGaps within a 30 minute drive from each other :P
:P
Oh SoHo store, where art thou?
I'm sadly without Broadband yet in my new place in New York. Does anyone know of a venue at which I can catch the keynote in the NYC area?
Speaking of InDesign,
I just did a job that entailed copying-pasting roughly 6000 column data-sets from an Excel spreadsheet in to a design layout. I originally tackled the problem in InDesign, because it allows very useful "import text filters" that allowed me to pre-emptively edit out extra cell-data and the likes. It took me 6 hours all together.
But they needed it in Quark format... Let's just say, 25 hours later I'm not a very happy camper.
Quark must die die DIE DIE... ahem, pardon me.
I recommend welding Aluminum for any welders looking for a challenge
:P
Sure... I've known how to weld steel for some years now, and what my bud explained to me about the process of welding Ti made me pee my pants... Of course Merlin was (still is I guess, even though they've been bought by LiteSpeed) hell bent on brandishing the finest, most consistent titanium puddle-beads in the industry. That's pretty much all a Merlin (or Seven) is... Ultra-thin 3/2.5 (like all the others) with Fine Art beads
Just to clarify, the purpose for flooding the weld surface with innert gas is not due to the melt point, but rather to shield the weld from the impurities that are introduced by the Earth's atmosphere (i.e. oxidization).
I have a few knick-knacks my best friend welded for me when he worked at Merlin Metalworks (bicycle frame manufacturer) that were welded unshielded, and the welds are very brittle and show corrosion.
lol your post made ME laugh ;D
Your scheme also assumes I'm able to attain ownership/r/w priveleges to the internal volume while booted from an ancillary volume. This is not always the case, I've had issues with multiple internal hard drives before.
You're right about the Open Firmware... It's a rather recent addition to the party though... I'm a little worried about using it myself, the consequences could be disastrous. More power to you
Every one of the aforementioned solutions can be very easily bypassed (aside from yours):
;)
:P Barring that, demo programs can and will be pilfered by sneaky little bastiges, although it certainly blocks access to people who wish to demo the ports for honorable reasons :)
Step 1) Configure your iPod so the HFS+ volume is identical to a MacOS X install CD.
Step 2) plug in the iPod
Step 3) restart the mac holding down Command-option-shift-delete (when rupert the apron-wearing attendant is over there helping a cute 19 year old find a copy of Black and White)
Step 4) Reset the local root password, set startup disk to internal HD, restart
Step 5) Login as root, go crazy.
The same can be accomplished with an actual install CD, but it's far more conspicuous.
I'm not 100% certain that the Mac will authorize a password reset if the boot volume isn't explicitly 'Drive C', but I wouldn't put it beyond Apple to have been lax about this function.
I'm in no way condoning this behavior (nor am I bragging about past personal acheivements), it simply crossed my mind the last time I was in the 5th Ave Manhattan CompUSA fiddling around with the new iMac, wishing I could log in as root
I agree with you, the best anti-piracy solution is to simply super-glue the Firewire/USB ports and optical drives shut
*ahem*
Grimm *were fools*... 2 of them... brothers... nevermind.
What's more perplexing is the origin of your motivation to resort to puerile tactics such as equating a Mac user to a domesticated dog. I rarely find any PowerPC users that choose such a route of argumentation. Oh well, "ingoramus et ignorabimus" my naieve freind
I think the update predominantly fixes the high-level API compatibilities rather than low-level performance. Limewire under OSX now functions properly in terms of real-time column resizing and redraw, etc. There very well might be more to the update than just this, I'm not sure. Read the ADC release doc. if you're truly curious :)
Just curious, where are you going find an x86 processor that runs at 5.4 Ghz (considering that a 1Ghz G4 Apollo is the equivalent of an "AMD rating" of 1800MP)...
I suppose you could try and OC a Pentium 4, but you'll find that the core wasn't designed to handle the aggregation that would occur, and thus you'd hit a performance wall most likely at around 3.8Ghz... Read the sig and bow to the wisdom, your "highness"